Rate My Professor Chloe Cannell

Dr Chloe Cannell is a casual academic and Course Builder in the School of Education, College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. She completed her PhD at the University of South Australia in 2024, investigating the challenges of portraying underrepresented LGBTQIA+ characters in contemporary young adult fiction through an intersectional lens. Cannell has extensive teaching experience in creative writing, literature, cultural studies, screen studies, and gender and sexuality studies across the University of South Australia (2019-2025 as Tutor, Course Coordinator, Student Assessor), Flinders University (CREA 2106 Creative Arts Theory and Practice, 2025), and Adelaide University. As a founding member of the Critically Creative Reading and Writing Collective, she contributes to collaborative scholarly endeavors and is available for media comment.

Cannell's academic interests center on creative writing, young adult literature, feminist and queer theory, culture, gender, sexuality, and popular and genre literature. Her prolific publication record includes "Queering the short story cycle for young adult fiction" (Leaf Journal: on writing for young people, 2025), "Queer(y)ing oceans: surprises of grief in critically-creative co-research at the eco-queer nexus" (Lambda Nordica, 2025, co-authored), "Re-thinking metaphors for research degree candidature and academic careers: beyond the ‘journey’, towards enhanced inclusivity" (New Writing, 2025, co-authored), "Green encounters: critically creative inter/actions with-and-in ecologies of crisis" (New Writing, 2024, co-authored), and "Developing research-writer identity and wellbeing in a doctoral writing group" (Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023, co-authored). Additional contributions feature "Becoming-game: an assemblage of perspectives on challenges for early career academics in neoliberal times" (Text, 2020) and the book chapter "Writing, playing, transforming: a collaborative inquiry into neoliberalism's effects on academia" (Reimagining the Academy, 2021). Cannell was awarded the Leadership and Innovation Team Award by the University of South Australia in 2025. She served as a member of the Gender, Sex and Sexualities conference committee at the University of Adelaide (2018-2020), holds editorial positions with Creative Matters (2024-2026), performs peer review for TEXT journal (2020-ongoing), and edits for Writing From Below (2019-ongoing). In 2023, she delivered an invited lecture at SAE University College's Graduate Seminar for Creative Industries Masters candidates.